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It is generally accepted that computers based on the emerging hybrid shared/distributed memory parallel architectures will become the fastest and most cost-effective supercomputers over the next decade. This, however, makes the search for the most appropriate programming model and corresponding programming environments more important than ever before. Arguably the most serious obstacle to the acceptance of parallel supercomputers is the so-called software crisis. Software, in general, is considered the most complex artifact in high-performance computing; since the lifespan of parallel machines has been so brief, their software environments rarely reach maturity and the parallel software crisis is especially acute. Hence, portability, in particular, is a critical -issue in enabling high-performance parallel computing. Application programmers need flexible yet comprehensive interfaces which cover both the shared memory and the distributed memory programming paradigms.
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Getov, V., Flynn-Hummel, S., Mintchev, S. (1999). A Programming Environment For High-Performance Computing In Java. In: Allan, R.J., Guest, M.F., Simpson, A.D., Henty, D.S., Nicole, D.A. (eds) High-Performance Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4873-7_60
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